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The last guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Bette Midler, sang a show tune parody. Jay Leno's first guest, Billy Crystal, also sang a show tune parody.
The The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson's previous host, Johnny Carson, never once appeared on successor Jay Leno's show. Carson did, however, appear twice on rival late night talk show Late Show with David Letterman (in a walk-on appearance soon after Letterman's show debuted, and later in a filmed sketch). In the years following Carson's "Tonight Show" retirement, he reportedly contributed jokes to Letterman's monologues from time to time.
Became the first American nightly talk show to air in HD on April 26th, 1999.
Unlike his predecessor, Johnny Carson, whose guest hosts were a staple almost from the beginning, Jay Leno went for a full decade before presenting his first guest host, Katie Couric.
Jimmy Brogan, who co-wrote Jay Leno's opening monologue from 1992-2001, was usually seen sitting off to the side of the audience. Once in a while, Jay would make a bet with Jimmy if a certain joke worked or not, and the loser would pay the winner in front of the camera.
Barack Obama's appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1992) {(#17.50)} marked the first TV talk show appearance by a sitting President.
When Johnny Carson announced his retirement, he promised the Tonight Show to David Letterman. However, NBC gave it to Jay Leno instead, resulting in a long time feud between the two. Carson felt so bad about it that he tried unsuccessfully to settle things between them.
This is the episode that, for the very first time, catapulted Leno's ratings over and above rival David Letterman's. Guest Hugh Grant was there to promote his first Hollywood film Nine Months and answer Leno's resounding question - "What the hell were you thinking?" - just 13 days after Grant's arrest on solicitation charges in Los Angeles (27 June 1995).
The segment entitled "Natasha Leggero Finds a Valentine" was announced and displayed as "Speeding Dating for a Valentine" during the opening credits.
Annie Lennox sang her song, "Why", accompanying herself on a grand piano.
Annie Lennox performed to promote her new CD/DVD, "The Annie Lennox Collection".
The official "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" Web site lists this episode as Episode 3712.
Barack Obama's appearance on the show marked the first TV talk show appearance by a sitting President.
At the end of the "Headlines" segment, Jay Leno calls Kevin Eubanks over to the guest chair, where Eubanks announces that he is planning to leave "The Tonight Show" after 18 years.
Following Luke Bryan's performance, he flipped over his guitar to reveal the message "Visit nashvillerising.org", referring to a benefit concert for Nashville flood recovery.
This particular episode marked the final appearance of Kevin Eubanks and his Tonight Show Band after an 18-year stint with Jay Leno (3 under the direction of Branford Marsalis, and 15 as Leno's right-hand man, a virtual successor to Johnny Carson's Ed McMahon.
On July 6th 2010 Actor/Writer/Ordained Minister Jason Segel married couple Jason Wood (X) and Abbe Thorner. This was only the second time in Tonight Show history a wedding occurred. On December 17th 1969 Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki tied the knot.
Rickey Minor and The Tonight Show Band wore '70s-era disco outfits and wigs for this show and played various songs from that period, in keeping with Gloria Gaynor's guest appearance.
Contrary to the show's typical practice, the first guest, Jason Statham, appears in only one segment, while the second guest, Michele Bachmann, appears in two segments.
The version of Chickenfoot that performed their new single "Different Devil" included Sammy Hagar (vocal), Joe Satriani (guitar), Michael Anthony (IX) (bass), Kenny Aronoff (drums) and Mike Keneally (keyboards).
Jay Leno noted that the audience for this show included 70 ambassadors from around the world.
Jay Leno wore a fake mustache for the monologue - without explaining why - after losing a bet to Jimmy Fallon on the previous Friday's show. Hundreds of viewers sent letters complaining about (or praising) his "new look", even though he removed the mustache on air during the next segment.
First guest Kristin Chenoweth appeared only in the third segment, while animals with Julie Scardina appeared in the fourth and fifth segments.
Introduced in the audience was the U.S. Olympic women's water polo team.
The clip of Louis Zamperini is of him winning the mile at the 1938 NCAA Championships in record time, just ahead of Wisconsin's Charles Fenske, and not of his record time in the final lap at the 1936 Olympics as he had just recounted.
Jay Leno opened the show with comments acknowledging the shootings the previous night in Aurora, Colorado at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
Although Ryan Lochte was the first-billed guest, Kristen Bell was interviewed in the third and fourth segments with Lochte not being interviewed until the fifth segment.
Contrary to the show's usual practice, guests Jason Statham and Allyson Felix were each interviewed in one segment, Tom Green did standup comedy in the fifth segment, and musical guests the Offspring performed in the sixth segment.
Unusually, the order of guests in this episode did not correspond to their billing order; Miss Piggy appeared in the third segment, followed by top-billed guest Mickey Rourke in the fourth and fifth segments.
Atypical of the show's usual practice, the first guest (Melissa McCarthy) appears in only one segment, while the second guest (Rick Perry) appears in two segments.